Doughnut Muffins

Yes, you read that right...doughnut muffins. Oh my. I came across this jewel while reading the "What's Cooking" board on The Nest. Basically, it's doughnut batter baked in muffin form, drowned in butter, and covered in cinnamon sugar. Ahhh. I made these last night for Justin's breakfast this morning, but he ended up eating a few for dessert! I mean, how can you just leave something like that sitting there until morning? My kitchen smelled amazing, like Krispy Kreme when the red light is on. There are many forms of this recipe on the internet, mine is adapted from one on allrecipes.com. I decided to use powdered sugar on top, instead of granulated sugar. We all love those little powdered sugar doughnuts, right?!

Doughnut muffins
adapted from allrecipes.com

1/3 cup shortening
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup milk

1/4 cup melted butter
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon


Preheat oven to 375. Grease and flour 12 muffin cups.
Cream sugar and shortening. Add egg and mix to combine. Whisk together dry ingredients in a separate bowl. Add dry ingredients alternately with milk until combined. Fill the prepared muffin cups about half full.
Bake in the preheated oven until the tops are lightly golden, 20 minutes.
While muffins are baking, place 1/4 cup of melted butter in a bowl. In a separate bowl, mix together 1/2 cup of powdered sugar with the cinnamon. Remove muffins from their cups, dip each muffin in the melted margarine, and roll in the sugar-cinnamon mixture. Let cool and serve. With milk, duh.